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Major Clement Charles LISTER
21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers, Indian Army Date of birth: 29th January 1883 Date of death: 31st January 1952 Survived aged 69 Buried at Bitterne Church, Southampton
Clement Charles Lister was born at 3 Wellesley Terrace, Dover in Kent on the 29th of January 1883 the son of Clement Lister DP, a ship owner, and Katherine Victoria (nee Miles) Lister of 3 Wellesley Terrace, Dover. He was christened at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Dover on the 4th of April 1883. He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1895. When he left, the school magazine wrote the following of him: - ".....will be heard of at Wellington some day in the football eleven, or fifteen." He went on to Wellington College where he was in Mr. Brougham’s House from September 1895 to 1900. He went on to the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1901 where he was a member of the Rugby XV. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 21st Lancers on the 18th of January 1902. On the 1st of April 1902 he became a founder member of the Roehampton Polo Club when it opened. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 14th of September 1907 and to Captain on the 1st of October 1912. He also served as regimental Adjutant. During the war he served on the North West Frontier in 1915 and in France from the 12th of October 1916 until 1917. He was promoted to the rank of Major while in command of a School of Instruction and relinquished the rank on the 22nd of June 1917 when his posting ceased. He returned to India in 1917 where he saw action on the North West Frontier again where he was badly wounded which left him with a bad limp. He transferred to the 5th Dragoon Guards on the 23rd of November 1921 with the rank of Captain with seniority from the 1st of October 1912 and was based at Meerut. He was promoted to Major in the Reserve of Officers in the 17th /21st Lancers on the 19th of January 1924 with seniority from the 29th of June 1923. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1926 and retired from the army in 1927. He was married in 1928 to Agnes May (nee Bovey); they had a daughter, Diana. Between the wars he played polo for his regiment and for the Roehampton Club, of which he was a founder member and which he managed for a time. He was Secretary to the Indian Polo Association until his retirement. He later became a solicitor, and, on the 10th of June 1948, he was appointed as Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Solicitor for the National Association for the Employment of Regular Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen. He lived at Mersham, Bitterne in Hampshire and was a member of the Cavalry Club. He died at the Hospital, Wolverton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey and, following a funeral service at Paul's Church, Kingston Hill, he was buried at Bitterne Church, Southampton on the 5th of February 1952.

Went on to Wellington College